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‘Due To Security Concerns A Tea Bag Has Been Removed From This Mailing’

A Hill staffer informs us that the Congressional Mail Room Security People are starting to go Code Mango on all tea bag anthrax letters, which is a tragedy, because now staffers can’t send us comical photos of the tea bags (unless they’re faxes!) And no more free treats for these poor worker bees! There’s always Nestle chocolate milk to steal, though.

Operative Welfare Queen writes about the new lack of free handouts:

I just thought I’d let you know that the greedy House mail room is now stealing our free tea for themselves. Teabagger envelopes now arrive empty, with a sticker on the front that says: “Due to security concerns a tea bag has been removed from this mailing. It was the only item contained in the envelope. There was no correspondence in the letter.”

The free tea spree has come to an end.

But how are staffers supposed to carefully consider their constituents’ opinions from now on?

Jim Newell is Wonkette's beloved Capitol Hill Typing Demon. He joined Wonkette.com in 2007, left for some other dumb job in 2010, and proudly returned in 2012 as our "Senior Editor at Large." He lives in Washington and also writes for things such as The Guardian, the Manchester paper of liberals.

So, the government is now wasting our tax dollars printing stickers to put on envelopes?!?!?!!1!! Tea Party REVOLUTION!!1!! NO WASTEFUL STICKER DOLLARZZ!!11!!!

SayItWithWookies

Yes, but was it good tea? This should tell us how the economy is doing.

Lorax

Then they came for the Teabags,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Teabagger.

Come here a minute

I hope I am first with the gratuitous TEABLOGGING link. Have the TEABLOGGERS a.k.a. WARBLOGGERS been notified?

smartypants

Threat Level: MANGO

Lascauxcaveman

C’mon, hill staffers. I know that few of you qualify as ‘wealthy,’ but you can afford to buy you own gaddanged tea. Or steal it from motel breakfast rooms or some such. No more whining.

RoscoePColtraine

Lorax: WIN

prophet1195

There might be… POT in those bags! SPRAY ‘EM WITH Christian pee.

TaxWallStreet

Code Mango is Sarah Palin’s latest kid’s name.

Texan Bulldoggette

OT but porn star Marilyn Chambers has been found dead at 56. I get the feeling, based on the pure # of Trucknutz references, that a lot of male Wonkette readers will have to have a moment of silence for this.

pondscum

[re=287885]Kim_Jong_LiL[/re]: I hear McDonald’s sweet tea is the new crack.

This entire thing is amazing. Do these people seriously not know what teabagging means? Really?

Monsieur Grumpe

Free the tea bags!

TaxWallStreet

“Marilyn Chambers has been found dead at 56”

So it’s official, Rush is now the most overused c#nt in the world. Also.

Kim_Jong_LiL

Is this working?

smartypants

[re=287914]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: uh-huh. They all has a sad.

Kim_Jong_LiL

I just wanted to know because I had a comment for the post
on the thing about Jim Lehrer and Christopher Hitchens
but when I go to post it tells me to Login but I’m already
logged in.

Quite a dilemma.

Delicious

[re=287914]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: RIP Ivory Snow girl.

Atheist Nun

YEAR: 2047
LOCATION: A shallow trench in a cold, damp cave on the outskirts of Bergoo, West Virginia.
SCENE: 2 dirty, disheveled men are shivering in the semi-darkness, surrounded by empty military surplus MRE food packets and a pile of guns:

There’s gotta be a work analogous to “chickenhawk” to describe the outrage and spirit of rebellion which leads people to briefly get up off of their couch and send a tea bag (and a “letter” if you can call it that) to the king’s redcoats.

Red Zeppelin

So what are we supposed to do on Wednesday–is it green tea enemas for everyone?

psilage

SpinItMen (like minutemen only not so much)

psilage

Weak-end Pour-iers. Ahem.

psilage

Tea-triots. Achoo.

StephanieInCA

[re=287901]Come here a minute[/re]: oh christ. does this mean i have to have sex with YOU now too? too much teabagging. my jaw hurts.

[re=287933]Kim_Jong_LiL[/re]: That happens to me, too. Wonkabout doesn’t seem to recognize our registration. And they probably wonder why no one comments on their articles.

Kim_Jong_LiL

Why don’t I believe that?

DC Hates Me

[re=287914]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: According to her bio, Marilyn was the 2008 VP Candidate for the Boston Tea Party, a libertarian political party.

gurukalehuru

They took the teabags out of the envelopes! Is the U.S. Post not sacred? What next? Will letters to Santa Claus actually go undelivered?

Kim_Jong_LiL

Santa Claus has his own security.

qwerty42

[re=287918]pondscum[/re]: This entire thing is amazing. Do these people seriously not know what teabagging means? Really?
you can’t expect them to keep up with all the latest expressions of the hepcats. or traditions or whatever.

Atheist Nun

[re=287973]Jukesgrrl[/re]: I’m already signed up with Mary Carey’s agent, they threw in a free DDDD boob job.

Kingbee

This is all a sham. Rednecks do not drink tea — they drink Mountain Dew. There is a mailing house somewhere that has been hired to mail out tea bags. When Congress is deluged with Mountain Dew cans, I’ll believe that this is serious.

iolanthe

[re=287914]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Also OT.

56, my ass!

Marilyn Chambers *used* to be older than I am, and I’m 58. Funny how that works.

I saw “Behind the Green Door” when it first came out, in 1972, when I was just barely 21. At that time, they were saying she was 25. She’d already been the Ivory Snow “little mother”, and she sure as hell didn’t look 18 or 19 in that ad picture.

That happened with Britt Ekland, too. When I was a 17-year-old with a crush on Peter Sellers, Britt was 26. A decade later? She was still 26. Hmmm … Wiki has Britt’s real age now.

But Wiki has a fictitious birth year for Marilyn.

LeastExcellent

[re=287970]psilage[/re]: Liptonerians

Jukesgrrl

[re=288019]Atheist Nun[/re]:
Wow, what a link. I never saw the words, “Cleveland,” “Florida,” “schizophrenic” and “porn star” in the same paragraph before, although I can’t imagine why.

1) google “teabagger”
2) first link, urbandictionary.com
3) vote up for this definition:
“A conservative republican who protests against income taxes by rubbing their nutsacks in each other’s faces.”

mr. wunnerful

[re=288410]jgrn307[/re]: WIN!!!!

Jukesgrrl

[re=288410]jgrn307[/re]: If you can get Dan Savage the sex columnist on this, you’ve got a winner. He’s added more than one word to the English language through the power of the vote.

hobospacejunkie

[re=288039]iolanthe[/re]: I saw “Behind the Green Door” when it first came out, in 1972, when I was just barely 21

Where were all the women like you when I was that age? Jesus christ, I could hardly get laid before I was 20, much less meet a girl who watched porn. If I build that time machine I’ve been working on I’m looking you up when I go back to 1972.